The toolkit enables SAN products to be centrally managed, along with other networking devices such as routers, hubs, switches, workstations, PCs and laptops, from a single console when using Tivoli NetView.
The former relates to Microsoft's refusal to allow rival software vendors access to its APIs and protocols so they can make their server software 'talk' to the Windows desktop OS more easily. The latter relates to Microsoft's bundling of its...
In a recent interview with silicon.com sister site CNETAsia during his Singapore stopover, Kao explains the need for this yet-to-be-developed console and why it cannot be replaced by TiVo-like PCs or next-generation TVs or DVD players.
The meeting, which is an outgrowth of the long-running Department of Justice antitrust case, will take place in mid-February, according to a joint status report filed late on Tuesday with US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.
Microsoft said late on Friday that it was agreeing voluntarily to "document and license the communications protocols in the Windows desktop operating system that are used to interoperate with Windows server OS products".
According to Chambe-Eng, Trolltech has a "very special status in both the Linux and Unix community at large [and now benefits from being] part of an organisation with much more muscle than [Trolltech] had so far".